I'm thinking about making a "challenge" thingy here on steemitsteemCreated with Sketch.

in #steem8 years ago

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I've been thinking about it for a while now actually, I wanted to figure out something I could do similar to how a lot of these other people are sort of making a niche for themselves in certain areas.
papapepper has done amazingly well with his contests, and I'm sure the others who have created their own forms have done well as well.

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It seems like a great way to both give back to the community and to help newcomers with a little extra steem or SBD, and also a way for you yourself to gain more traction as well since people tend to love free stuff! Or.. Rewards for challenges or puzzles they have completed and things like that!

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I've got a decent amount of steem so while I can't offer some amazing rewards like others on this platform, I can definitely do a little something something..

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Still not sure exactly what the subject is going to be, though I'm leaning in the direction of a challenge that changes, like one week it might be a photography challenge, the next a poetry, the next a research assignment or to write up an essay on a given subject and the next perhaps a meme challenge or something like that..

I'm not really sure yet, but I've got some interesting ideas and I'm thinking about it a lot! I also used to run a photography challenge on Facebook that was at one point in time decently popular, so I do have some experience here already and kinda wish I woulda jumped on the "challenge" thing sooner, yet.. It is what it is..

I'm not an expert at this platform and I'm learning as I go and there's a lot of information to take in and process and I'm sorta going at my own pace.
Though now I think it's time to step up my game a bit. And.. Use Facebook much less, and steemit much more.

And before you tell me to quit Facebook like I hear somewhat often, I have a good amount of great friends and family members that I keep in touch with on there.. So I don't wanna quit completely yet or ever as long as there are important people there, I'm just not going to use it nearly as much and use it more just to keep in touch with those people, and also to cross network a bit as well and share things from steemit or whatever.

I'm still gonna use Facebook, it's just.. Become so trivial now with the censorship and the limiting of peoples reach down to like less than 1% of their feed.
I used to get decent numbers and now my page as well as many others have turned into virtual ghost towns sort of.. It's really sad to see how much they've fucked that system up.

I think the reach rate used to be around 16% if I remember correctly? It wasn't so bad then! Now it's like less than 1%!!!!
My suspicions are they want people to pay for advertising, but here on steemit.. I get paid! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which one is more worth my time.

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Anyways.. To anyone who happens to read this.. If I made a challenge like what I mentioned where it's different subjects like photography and puzzles and poetry and memes for different weeks, would you be interested in participating?

The rewards will probably be much smaller at first, though I think in time if they become more popular the rewards will as well, especially if I put all of the money earned from the challenge posts into like the.. "Ultimate grand prize" or whatever which I do plan on doing.

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Also.. If you have any good advice in regards to challenges in general and this subject, please feel free to share! I would appreciate any extra information or knowledge on this kinda stuff.
Thanks for your time! Peace.

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PS.. I already had ideas of doing something like this, BUT.. I was majorly inspired and encouraged by fellow steemian @tonyr who is one of my favorite people on here and I suggest you check out his blog if you have some time and see if you like the content he shares. He does a few challenges on his page as well!

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If you need some help in organizing the contests
regarding making the graphics or some other thing, let me know. We can together organise these contests here.

Thanks for the offer! Will keep you in mind. :)

@apolymask,
Life is the biggest challenge I have ever seen and steemit is the best backup I have ever found! Wish you a happy new year bro!

Cheers~

Well said and same to you my friend! Hope you have a great new year full of a lot of happiness and positive things. :)

I enjoy the idea of having a constantly rotating challenge, or maybe a rotation of a few. My personality is one that enjoys changing my point of view or activity often and I think that when attempting to reach a large audience, variety could get more eyes on you. The tag feature allows people to find what they enjoy, so I think more blogs could stand to diversify topics when within a system like this because it is easy to change the organization of content by topic and by author.

I feel like the art form of joke telling is dying out, I would be very amused and come back for a joke creating/curation (specific topic) challenge.

Thanks for the awesome feedback! I'm definitely going to add a joke challenge! That's a really good idea! :)
And yeah.. What you said about.. Rotation and changing and also simultaneously reaching a larger audience made a lot of sense to me! I didn't look at it that way before but I totally think you're right! That makes this idea even more exciting to me. :) I also think diversity is good because it helps us learn about lots of different things. Which I think is really healthy in general, cause the more different kinds of things you learn about the more of a.. "Larger picture of life" you get sorta. I feel like each art and discipline has it's own story to tell, so the more of those stories you deep your toes into the more you can kind of learn about life in general. :)
Cheers and thanks again for the awesome feedback!

You are speaking to my personal philosophy about trying new things. My blog will also employ changing topics so perhaps you and I will come to provide inspiration for one another. Looking forward to some good laughs on your posts!

That's really good of you to give me a mention mate and I'll definitely be taking part if you get it up and running. :)

It's just passed midnight here now, so Happy New Year, my friend. I hope it's a great one for you and all of yours. :)

Glad to hear you'll be taking part! That's encouraging. :) I've had a couple others tell me they would as well, so that's a start! I just have to think of more details and get a plan down and figure it out a little bit more, but.. I'm going to do it.. It's just a matter of time now. :)

Thanks for the well wishes, Same to you! Happy New Year! Likewise, I hope this new year is an awesome and memorable one for you and your family! And likewise for me and my family and for others! Pretty much for everyone except the corrupt predator assholes! Heh. I hope the corrupt predator assholes have a lousy year and we can start bringing more freedom and beauty and love back into the world. ._.

no lambo for me... im more down to earth. I just want a beach house in the Bahamas or Caribbean. lol

Lol. That would be a pretty dope. I don't want a lambo either, I just think it's one of these sort of funny memes going around.
If I ever got rich from crypto, I would just try to take care of my basic needs and use the additional money to help others like friends and family and then try to invest in important projects that will help others I don't even know and the world in general. I don't need much. I'd be happy with a small house and a regular SUV so I can go offroading and do more nature photography easier. Oh also and a nice drone. :) And a better camera. Heh.

sounds good to me!

Great idea, count me in! I’ve been meaning to join these meme competitions!

Word! Good to know. :) Yeah I think the meme ones would be fun! I've been making a few of my own recently and making memes are pretty enjoyable, plus they often make people laugh which is awesome and a usually a very positive thing as well!

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Happy STEEMing!

I was going to start my new year off by telling my facebook friends about steemit and the blockchain... finally.

Good luck with that! My family was very skeptical at first, and now most are on board except for my mother, she thinks digital money is a plan by the AI to take over, heh. But she doesn't really use computers at all anyways so I'm not really surprised. She's one of the older generation that had a difficult time adapting to the new technologies. My father on the other hand is pretty good at technology stuff and he's even in the process of working on an account. So.. Once again.. Took me a while to reach most of them.. Good luck!

That's a great idea man take me in that I love these types of challenge ......

Word. Good to know! Will explain more when I know more, lol.

I wanna play!

I'm deffo up for the challenges and competitions. I'd like to play the poetry, memes, photos or articles. Anything really. It's all about sharing ideas and art, so all good. Would love to know more about how to join in.

Cheers :D

Awesome! That's cool you're into so many different things. Good to hear and thanks for the feedback. I still haven't figured everything out yet, but when I do I'll let you know more. Cheers. ._.

Can't wait :D

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